New Moon in Aquarius 🐉 Feb 9, 2024

artist: argentumfae

Friday, Feb 9 🐉 4:59 pm CDT

Greetings earthlings and happy new moon! This month the moon and sun dance together in wild Aquarius. It is this new moon which demarcates the Chinese Lunar New Year each year, or the second new moon after the winter solstice.

2024 is the year of the Wood Dragon. If you are a Dragon, 2024 is considered unlucky for you. The year of your own animal is known as tai sui. Traditional advice for warding off tai sui includes wearing red and making an altar pointed in the cardinal direction associated with your animal. The Dragon occupies the east.

The New Moon in Aquarius is at once energizing and draining. Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the most erratic of the planets. Uranian influence is not just strange and arrhythmic but also technological, creative, social, and connective.

Here’s the message bristling in the breeze, and the only thing we can ever fully rely on Aquarius to deliver: we do not know what’s coming. Aquarius teaches adaptation and detachment. We must be nimble and move with the wind. This new moon is all about navigating unforeseen circumstances.

Now is the perfect time to rethink how you want to do things, and I mean anything at all. You may learn more about alternative education, social justice, environmentalism – anything which breaks the mold and causes you to wonder…what if? No matter what, the Aquarian path will prove to be eccentric and non-conventional. It’s certainly anything but “normal.”

Heads up: this new moon forms a sharp square to Uranus in Taurus. Expect the unexpected. Say goodbye to how you think things will unfold because Aquarius/Uranus is here to change everything without notice.

Sometimes the New Moon in Aquarius is a mixed bag with a lot of shitty stuff in the bag. Like, who needs more unexpected and unpredictable events in life right now? Who wants to feel even more on edge? Absolutely no one, of course. If all this chaotic energy is making you feel ungrounded, focus on the root chakra in meditation. Celebrate the new moon/new year with Aquarius Yoga. To find your personal moon sign, click here.